“Letter to Merkel: Greens call for action on diesel emissions”
dpa
Green Party and parliamentary group leaders Cem Özdemir and Anton Hofreiter call on Chancellor Angela Merkel to act on pollution in German cities, reports news agency dpa. The pair ask Merkel in a letter to support the introduction of “blue badges” that would give cities a legal basis for banning older diesel cars in order to lower nitrogen oxide emissions, which are harmful to the health of the population. This also had an economic dimension, as jobs in diesel car manufacturing could only be kept if the cars complied with ambitious emissions limits.
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For background, read the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.
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